QUARTERBACK TREVOR LAWRENCE
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2023
(On the biggest benefits of joint practices) “Out here, you can kind of protect yourself a little bit but also get the work in, get a lot of plays, get a lot of different situations worked. That’s really good. I thought it was a good week for us just situationally, going to another team, another defense, we’ve been seeing
our defense all of camp. Going against another squad where we haven’t really seen some of their stuff and get to just work that. I think it’s been good for us.”
(On feeling like he got what he needed out of today’s joint practice) “Yeah, I thought it was good. It was really competitive, I thought in both teams it was really competitive. We were battling and you love to see that. It got fiery and that’s what this game is about. It was cool to see and just to see that competitiveness come out of everybody, that was great. Like I said, situationally it was great work, a lot
to learn from. It was a lot of good and a lot of bad in the last two days. Just to watch the tape and to have this, it’s going to be really valuable for us and I’m sure for Detroit as well. It just does a lot of good.”
(On if there’s any worries with shuffling around the offensive line due to injuries) “Yeah, I’m not really sure. I don’t really speak on that stuff because I don’t know about it and I’m not in the loop on all that. Obviously, you hope to get those guys back as soon as possible. We can use them all. Hopefully those guys get back soon but whatever group is in there, the guys are prepared. We work really hard, and
they’ve done a great job of getting up to speed. We’re really deep, so I feel confident with those guys, but obviously I never want to see those guys go down.”
(On how much playing time he feels he needs during preseason games) “That’s just something that the coaches decide and they’ll tell me when we talk about that stuff. I think it’s good to get those reps, those live reps where it is full speed, full contact, it’s a game that’s different than being at practice in a red jersey. That’s a different speed. I think it’s good to get back into the flow of things, how much that is,
I don’t necessarily have the answer for that. I think there’s good to it, to playing.”
(On if the joint practices met his expectations) “It was great. I thought it was really competitive, you see it coming out of both teams. It’s good, that’s how this game is played. It’s played with a lot of energy and passion and it’s cool to see us going back and forth and competing. I think that was great. Then, we got some really good work in situationally. They threw everything at us and seeing a new defense, that’s good for us too. We’ve seen our defense now for two and a half, three weeks so it was good to see a new team, new looks, new presentations, different personnel, all those things. I think it was really good for us.”
(On competitively talking back and forth on the field against opponents) “I like it. It makes it fun, then obviously with Chauncey [Lions S C.J. Gardner-Johnson] over there, you get plenty of that and you get a lot of doses of the talking. It was fun, I think it was really intense, didn’t really cross the line too many times and that’s the big thing. You still want to protect each other, these aren’t games. Everyone is
trying to get to the fall where the games mean something and that’s the big thing you want to keep in mind; you want to be healthy. I think we took care of each other, we got a lot of good work in, the competitiveness was there and I think that’s the big thing.”
(On feeling in sync with the offense currently) “We’re getting there. I think the last two days, me and Evan [TE Evan Engram] have had two really good days with just us working together in some of the different routes he’s ran, the communication, being in sync like he said. I thought it was really clean. As an offense as a whole, to be completely honest, we have to clean some things up. Procedurally, we got
to be cleaner, we got to be more detailed, more consistent. Too many little mental errors, it’s me as well. It’s all of us, we got to be more consistent. Our highs are great, we just got to eliminate some of the lows, and I think that’s going to be a big thing for us. We’re getting better, but we don’t play for a few more weeks. We got time, that’s the one thing to takeaway.”
